ingeny
English
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity
Etymology
Derived from Latin ingenium (an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL).
Origin
Latin
ingenium
Gloss
an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
機
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gignō Latin
- ingeniarius Latin
- ingeniator Latin
- ingenium Latin
- ingeniārius Latin
- ingegno Italian
- ingénier French
- ingenio Spanish, Castilian
- γιγνώσκω Ancient Greek
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- engin Old French
- enginy Catalan, Valencian
- engenno Old Portuguese
- engenno Old Spanish
- gnegnu Sicilian